The Education Department's latest plan for a controversial school rezoning in Brooklyn includes giving priority to students who live at or below the poverty line.
The rezoning would send students from DUMBO and Vinegar Hill to PS 307.
In the past, those students would have attended PS 8, a high performing school in Brooklyn Heights that is severely overcrowded.
But parents at PS 307 are concerned the rezoning will shift their school from serving mostly black and Latino students to serving mostly white students.
The department announced Monday it will allow PS 307 to prioritize students who qualify for free or reduced price lunch for up to half of the seats by 2017.
This comes after an announcement last week that the DOE will allow seven other schools to prioritize high needs students for enrollment.
In recent months, city officials have been under pressure to address racial and economic segregation within the public school system.